Your Arkansas Wedding + Elopement Photographer

While re-defining who I was as a creative in 2020 and building a new brand that was truly me, I experienced so many serendipitous moments that encouraged me I was on the right path. I had always been drawn to celestial elements and the night sky because of my late grandparents, who made my childhood feel magical. My grandmother was one of my biggest creative supporters and I owe a lot of my imagination to her. I chose to memorialize them through one of my favorite childhood memories - their moonflower garden. I loved watching the flowers bloom at night and looking up for the moon just as the flowers did. My grandpa once gave me a jar of Luna moth cocoons so I could watch them morph and release them back into the garden. That memory is one I love because of the parallels of growing up and changing into the creative I am today, somebody neither of my grandparents got to meet, but I know they would be proud of.

While I worked on this re-brand for a year, I uncovered so many things about the Beaty name and my late grandparents. I learned that my grandparents both had worked at NASA during the Space Race, my grandfather actually took part in building the shuttle we sent to the moon! I discovered a book online written by a distant relative about the Beaty family tree that goes back from my dad to the original Beaty brothers who came to America from Ireland. I learned that the Beaty's followed a motto that loosely translates to "May we follow celestial inspiration" and carried a crest with a moon and stars. All these connections reassured me I had finally found myself as a creative. I've since become known as the photographer with the 'dreamy vibes', which is exactly how I want people to remember their big day. A dream come to life.

Starting the dream guide experience

the garden

the moon